Josh White 🇺🇸

You’re being played by the same ideological rot that destroyed Iran in 1979, this time aimed at Israel. The left and the woke right are running the same playbook: whip up moral outrage, romanticize extremists, and pressure Western allies to self-sabotage under the illusion of “justice.” Before 1979, Iran was modernizing fast, embracing Western values, expanding women’s rights, building infrastructure rivaling Europe, and transitioning toward a constitutional monarchy. But the radical Islamists rebelled, launching assassinations and terror campaigns. When the Shah cracked down, as any government would when faced with armed insurrection, the Western left painted him as a tyrant and the extremists as “freedom fighters.” The media echoed it, the protests followed, and Carter, cornered by moral exhibitionism, abandoned the Shah. The result? Iran fell to the Ayatollahs, traded progress for repression, and became a global exporter of terror. And now, the same forces, the leftist agitators and their woke-right enablers, are trying to rerun that script with Israel. They undermine stability, empower extremists, and call it virtue. Then, as always, they’ll feign shock when the blood starts flowing.

Pragmatism time. @realDonaldTrump @PressSec @GOP @ScottPresler @HouseGOP @SenateGOP @SpeakerJohnson @LeaderJohnThune @BasedMikeLee @tedcruz @Jim_Jordan @JDVance We’re less than a year out from midterms, and Congress has a brutally short window where it can actually govern before campaign season turns everyone into fundraising NPCs. Executive orders are great for speed, but they’re paper shields. The next Democrat, the next court, or the next “emergency” and they’re gone in a week. If we don’t codify Trump’s core agenda into statute before midterms, we’re basically admitting we’re fine with it all being reversible. Here’s what has to get locked in by law, not just left as Trump’s signature on an EO: 1. Border, sovereignty, and citizenship Trump’s immigration and border orders finally treated mass illegal entry as what it is: an invasion and a national-security problem, not a sociology project. That includes: – Declaring the border crisis and cartel networks a national-security threat, using the military to support border security, and tightening asylum back to what it was meant to be, not a catch-and-release conveyor belt. – Realigning the refugee program so we aren’t importing other countries’ problems by the tens of thousands with no vetting or cultural buy-in. – Cracking down on visa overstays, birthright abuse, and sloppy paths to citizenship so the value of citizenship actually means something again. Congress’s job here is simple: turn those principles into statute. Mandatory E-Verify, real penalties for sanctuary jurisdictions, automatic removal for criminal aliens, fast-track deportation with due process that doesn’t drag on for ten years, and formal terrorist designations for cartels and their financial networks. Put it in black letter law so a future administration can’t just memo its way back to open borders. 2. De-weaponizing the federal government Trump’s orders on “ending the weaponization of the federal government” and “restoring freedom of speech and ending federal censorship” are the blueprint. The bureaucracy, intel, and DOJ have been operating like a fourth branch with veto power over the people’s choice. Codification means: – A hard statutory ban on federal agencies coordinating censorship with platforms, “NGOs,” and cutouts. No more laundering viewpoint suppression through “private” partners. – Tight limits on using national-security tools (FISA, NSLs, surveillance) in domestic political cases, with automatic disclosure and penalties when they’re abused. – Real consequences for rogue prosecutors and lawfare: fee-shifting, personal liability in extreme cases, and strict venue rules so you can’t drag political enemies into hostile jurisdictions just to bleed them dry. If Congress doesn’t write this into law, every EO on de-weaponization is one election away from being shredded. 3. Killing DEI and restoring merit Trump signed orders yanking DEI, critical-theory garbage, and race/sex preferences out of the federal government and contracting. That needs to be nailed into statute: – Ban DEI loyalty oaths, mandatory struggle sessions, and race-based hiring or promotion in federal agencies and federal contractors. – Restore strict merit standards for hiring, grants, and promotions. – Prohibit ideological litmus tests for security clearances, military promotion, or civil service positions. If Republicans leave this at the EO level, the left will just flip the switch back to “equity” the minute they get power again. 4. The administrative state and Schedule F 2.0 Trump’s workforce and hiring EOs are about one thing: breaking permanent-insider rule. Congress should: – Put into law an expanded “policy-making” classification (Schedule F in spirit) so presidents can actually fire ideological saboteurs in key roles. – Shrink and consolidate agencies through statute, not just task forces and memos. – Lock in transparent rulemaking, strict cost-benefit requirements, and automatic sunset provisions on major regulations. If you don’t codify this, the bureaucracy will wait out every reform and snap back the moment they smell weakness. 5. Tariffs, reshoring, and economic sovereignty Liberation Day tariffs and the reciprocal tariff framework hit the heart of the problem: we gutted our own industrial base while pretending “cheap imports” were free money. Courts are already taking shots at some of those tariff EOs by claiming Trump stretched emergency powers too far. Fine. Then Congress needs to step in and do its actual job. Congress should: – Write a permanent reciprocal tariff statute: if you tariff us, we match or exceed it by law. – Tie tariff policy to national-security sectors: steel, energy, tech, rare earths, critical minerals, food production. – Protect and extend the pro-worker tax cuts (no tax on overtime, tips, Social Security, etc.) so domestic labor has a fighting chance against foreign wage-slave economies. The combination of Liberation Day tariffs, reshoring, and targeted tax relief is already pulling capital and production back home. If Republicans don’t codify it, courts and globalists will neuter it piece by piece. 6. Energy independence and rejecting climate authoritarianism Trump’s energy and environmental orders ripped up the fake “climate emergency” handcuffs. Codification looks like: – Statutory fast-tracks for pipelines, drilling, refining, nuclear, and grid improvements. – Explicit bans on federal net-zero mandates that bypass Congress. – Guardrails on agencies like EPA so they can’t unilaterally throttle entire sectors based on made-up “social cost of carbon” numbers. Energy policy decides whether we’re a sovereign nation or a client state. Leave this at the EO level and the green cult will reverse it in a weekend. 7. Culture, speech, and basic reality There are EOs aimed at defending women’s sports and spaces, restoring biological sex in federal definitions, and pulling radical gender ideology out of official policy. Those need to be turned into plain statutory language so no future bureaucrat can “reinterpret” biology with a memo. Same with censorship: what Trump ordered by EO about federal speech policing needs to become a permanent line in the law, not just a temporary course correction. Bottom line: Congress has a narrow operational window before midterms where they can actually legislate instead of posture. The mission is not to invent brand new ideas, it’s to codify the mandate Trump already ran and won on: Border and sovereignty Lawful, accountable government Merit over ideology American production over global dependency Energy independence Reality over fashionable madness If Republicans treat Trump’s executive orders as the finish line instead of the starting point for legislation, they will have wasted the clearest governing mandate in modern history. We either translate this agenda into durable statute now, or we leave it all one election and one judge away from being erased.

Is pragmatism a sudden foreign concept to the new right? No, it's still there, it's just drowned out right now by two loud camps: 1. The die politely, compassionate conservative crowd that thinks "principle" means doing nothing forever. 2. The internet-radical crowd that thinks "revolution" means blowing up your own coalition and calling it strategy. Both of them are allergic to pragmatism because pragmatism forces you to produce instead of just posture. Pragmatism says: Win midterms Get a working majority Codify policy Rebuild institutional loyalty Strip bureaucratic overreach Reassert citizen sovereignty Force the agencies back under control Then you can talk about deeper reform But everyone wants to skip steps and jump right to "final boss fight of history." The Founders were not idealist philosophers who wrote pretty speeches and prayed over vibes. They were strategic, brutal pragmatists who negotiated, compromised, maneuvered, played factional politics, manipulated power centers, and then wrote down the principles to lock their gains in place. Pragmatism is not weakness. Pragmatism is how men who intend to win behave. Right now, too many on the right think the choice is: Pure ideological purity, or Total compromise Wrong. The real move is principled pragmatism. Stick to the core: Sovereignty comes from the people Rights are inherent Government is delegated authority Consent is the basis of legitimacy Then act strategically to build the conditions where those principles can function again. We will either learn to operate with discipline, or we’ll lose to people who do. That’s it.

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